Statistics for The 100 Greatest Novels

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#	Author	Novel	% Correct
69	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	79%
59	George Orwell	1984	77%
16	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	74%
8	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace	73%
10	Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	69%
6	Herman Melville	Moby-Dick	66%
23	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby	66%
64	George Orwell	Animal Farm	63%
77	Mary Shelley	Frankenstein	59%
51	Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist	59%
42	John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath	56%
14	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations	55%
74	Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities	53%
43	J.D. Salinger	The Catcher in the Rye	53%
13	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment	50%
5	Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote	50%
15	Victor Hugo	Les Miserables	50%
57	John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men	50%
46	Emily Bronte	Wuthering Heights	48%
30	Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina	45%
45	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	44%
21	James Joyce	Ulysses	43%
44	Jane Austen	Emma	41%
31	Joseph Conrad	Heart of Darkness	39%
71	Jack Kerouac	On the Road	37%
82	Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	31%
94	Charles Dickens	David Copperfield	30%
11	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	One Hundred Years of Solitude	30%
49	Truman Capote	In Cold Blood	28%
2	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	27%
88	Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls	25%
22	Gustave Flaubert	Madame Bovary	24%
48	Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	23%
17	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Idiot	22%
65	James Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans	21%
18	Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises	20%
1	Marcel Proust	In Search of Lost Time	19%
20	Franz Kafka	The Trial	19%
73	Thomas Hardy	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	18%
70	Arthur Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles	18%
24	William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury	18%
32	Virginia Woolf	To the Lighthouse	18%
38	Ian McEwan	Atonement	17%
37	Charles Dickens	Bleak House	17%
97	Frank Herbert	Dune	17%
25	George Eliot	Middlemarch	17%
33	William Thackeray	Vanity Fair	16%
26	Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	15%
93	Virginia Woolf	Mrs. Dalloway	15%
84	William Faulkner	As I Lay Dying	14%
72	Rudyard Kipling	Kim	14%
61	Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited	12%
98	Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure	11%
3	Thomas Mann	The Magic Mountain	11%
29	Henry James	The Portrait of a Lady	11%
28	Stendhal	The Red and the Black	10%
9	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	10%
7	William Faulkner	Absalom, Absalom!	9%
100	Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow	9%
58	Joseph Conrad	Lord Jim	9%
39	George Eliot	Silas Marner	9%
87	David Foster Wallace	Infinite Jest	8%
50	Henry James	The American	8%
68	Raymond Chandler	The Big Sleep	8%
54	Jonathan Franzen	The Corrections	8%
34	Ivan Turgenev	Fathers and Sons	7%
67	Kingsley Amis	Lucky Jim	7%
53	John Fowles	The French Lieutenant's Woman	7%
55	Laurence Sterne	Tristram Shandy	7%
91	Thomas Mann	Buddenbrooks	6%
89	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Demons/The Possessed	6%
35	Vladimir Nabokov	Pale Fire	6%
4	Henry James	The Ambassadors	6%
85	Henry James	Daisy Miller	5%
81	Martin Amis	Money	5%
80	William Gibson	Neuromancer	5%
47	Joseph Conrad	Nostromo	5%
40	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Gambler	5%
27	Henry James	The Golden Bowl	5%
83	Agatha Christie	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	5%
86	Thomas Hardy	The Return of the Native	5%
12	Henry James	The Wings of the Dove	5%
75	Philip Roth	American Pastoral	4%
63	Willa Cather	Death Comes for the Archbishop	4%
41	Honore de Balzac	Le Pere Goriot	4%
79	Zane Grey	Riders of the Purple Sage	4%
36	Saul Bellow	The Adventures of Augie March	4%
56	Nathanel West	The Day of the Locust	4%
66	Graham Greene	The Power and the Glory	4%
96	V.S. Naipaul	A Bend in the River	3%
52	Nathanael West	Miss Lonelyhearts	3%
62	Stendhal	The Charterhouse of Parma	3%
90	Leo Tolstoy	The Death of Ivan Illych	3%
76	Robert Heinlen	The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	3%
99	Philip K. Dick	Ubik	3%
78	Jonathan Lethem	The Fortress of Solitude	2%
92	Leo Tolstoy	The Kreutzer Sonata	2%
60	Edgar Allan Poe	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket	2%
19	Hermann Broch	The Sleepwalkers	2%
95	Henry James	The Spoils of Poynton	2%